Beyond method
Subtitle: philosophical conversations in healthcare research and scholarship
By: edited by Pamela M. Ironside.
Contributors: Ironside, Pamela M.
Series: Interpretive studies in healthcare and the human sciences -- v. 4.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Medical care -- Research -- Philosophy.; Health Services Research -- methods.; Philosophy.; Science.
Description: "Beyond Method provides a forum for scholars across health and human sciences disciplines to explore issues surrounding philosophy, methodology, and epistemology in the context of interpretive scholarship. The essays comprising this volume move beyond the practical descriptions or the "how to" of interpretive methods commonly found in textbooks to explore the contributions, underlying assumptions, limitations, and possibilities embedded within and across particular philosophical, methodological, and epistemological perspectives. They reveal the complexity and richness of understanding that emerges when philosophical issues are explicated within contemporary contexts, illuminating new possibilities for healthcare and human science scholarship"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The retrieval of method: the method of retrieval; title: Representing: interpretive scholarship's consummate challenge; title: Shared inquiry: socratic-hermeneutic interpre-viewing; title: Revealing shape-shifting through life-story narrative; title: Combining interpretive methodologies: maximizing the richness of findings; title: The thinking of research; title: Beyond the methods debate toward embodied ways of knowing.